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päähänpinttymä — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • fetish noun An object believed to hold magical or spiritual power.
  • preoccupation noun Something that dominates a person's thoughts and attention, often to the exclusion of other things.

Senses

päähänpinttymä is used for these senses in English:

  • fetish An irrational or abnormal preoccupation or fixation on some object or activity; an obsession. [from the 19th c.]
  • preoccupation The state of being preoccupied or an idea that preoccupies the mind; enthrallment.

fetish — full definition

  1. noun An object believed to hold magical or spiritual power.
  2. noun A strong, often sexual, fixation on a particular object or body part.
  3. noun An excessive or irrational obsession with something.

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